Be in the know. 15 key reads for Monday…

  1. Pfizer, US health officials to discuss COVID boosters on Monday (New York Post)
  2. President Biden’s Executive Order Opens New Front in Battle With Big Tech (Wall Street Journal)
  3. Nordstrom, Eyeing 20-Somethings, Strikes Deal With the Online Giant Asos (New York Times)
  4. Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic Flight Opens Door to Space Tourism (Wall Street Journal)
  5. The Las Vegas Business Trip Is Back (Mostly) (Wall Street Journal)
  6. Disney’s ‘Black Widow’ Tops Box Office, Lifting Prospect of Moviegoing Rebound (Wall Street Journal)
  7. How Dollar Tree Sells Nearly Everything for $1, Even When Inflation Lurks (Wall Street Journal)
  8. Higher Inflation Is Here to Stay for Years, Economists Forecast (Wall Street Journal)
  9. Netflix Proves It’s Essential, Pandemic or Not (Bloomberg)
  10. China’s Slowing V-Shaped Economic Recovery Sends Global Warning (Bloomberg)
  11. Israel Approves 3rd Vaccine Dose for Immunocompromised, TV Says (Bloomberg)
  12. For SPACs, one characteristic seems to determine the investing winners from losers (CNBC)
  13. Warren Buffett allowed Ndamukong Suh to shadow him for several weeks. The NFL star shared his 3 key takeaways (Business Insider)
  14. Spread of Delta variant casts shadow over Europe’s economic rebound (Financial Times)
  15. US banks enter earnings season with eyes on loan growth (Financial Times)

Be in the know. 15 key reads for Sunday…

  1. China’s Attacks on Tech Are a Losing Strategy in Cold War II (Bloomberg)
  2. John D. Rockefeller Was the Richest Person To Ever Live. Period (smithsonianmag)
  3. Megacap Tech Stocks Roar Back Into Vogue as Haven From Slowdown (Bloomberg)
  4. ECRI Weekly Leading Index Update (Advisor Perspectives)
  5. Virgin Galactic launches Richard Branson to edge of space: How to watch live (CNET)
  6. The World’s Deepest Swimming Pool Has Opened in Dubai (Maxim)
  7. We Took Ferrari’s Portofino M on a Wild Ride Through The Florida Keys (Maxim)
  8. Heinz Petitions to Put Equal Number of Hot Dogs and Buns in Packages (Maxim)
  9. ‘Succession’ Season 3 Trailer: The Roy Family is Out For Blood (Maxim)
  10. Shenzhen blazes trail for national data regulation: experts (technode)
  11. UFC 264: It was Dustin Poirier’s night, but don’t expect Conor McGregor to fade away (ESPN)
  12. Shrinkflation: Inflation’s Sneaky Cousin (NPR Planet Money)
  13. How The Tampa Bay Lightning Won Another Stanley Cup — And Made History (fivethirtyeight)
  14. How Does a Quantum Computer Work? (scientificamerican)
  15. There’s A Lot of Wealth (theirrelevantinvestor)

Be in the know. 30 key reads for Saturday…

  1. Rare Vintage Warren Buffett University of Tennessee talk (DVD) 2003 Best of Warren Buffett video (YouTube)
  2. How Warren Buffett got a 51.6% dividend yield on CocaCola (TD Ameritrade Network)
  3. Understanding Compounding and Getting Rich Late in Life (DGI)
  4. Didi Tried Balancing Pressure From China and Investors. It Satisfied Neither. (Wall Street Journal)
  5. Some Chinese Stocks Are Starting to Look Like Bargains. Where to Look. (Barron’s)
  6. An Infrastructure Spending Bust Might Boost Markets. Here’s Why. (Barron’s)
  7. Look Out Alphabet, Amazon, and Apple: Biden Takes Aim at Big Business in Exec Order. (Barron’s)
  8. Banks Are About to Kick Off Earnings Season. Keep an Eye on Citigroup. (Barron’s)
  9. There’s a New Growth Area in Tech. Pay Attention to These Stocks. (Barron’s)
  10. Which Company Can Reach $1 Trillion After Facebook? Here’s Our Guess. (Barron’s)
  11. 3 Things That Matter More for Boeing Stock Than China (Barron’s)
  12. What’s in Biden’s Big Business Executive Order (Wall Street Journal)
  13. Wharton School’s Jeremy Siegel on what yields pullback means for stocks (YouTube)
  14. Biden Revives Net Neutrality, Targets Big Broadband Providers (Wall Street Journal)
  15. Drug Prices Are One Focus of Biden’s Push to Boost Competition (Wall Street Journal)
  16. S&P 500 Perfect Earnings Record Is on the Line With Peak Growth (Bloomberg)
  17. IAC CEO says Apple ‘worse’ than Google, will be next U.S. antitrust target (CNBC)
  18. Opinion: The bull market in stocks may last up to five years — here are six reasons why (MarketWatch)
  19. America desperately needs 1 million more construction workers (CNN)
  20. Steve Cohen – America’s Most Profitable Day Trader (YouTube)
  21. NEW Lotus Emira First Look: Supercar Looks For Sports Car Money (YouTube)
  22. China to impose security checks on overseas listings (Financial Times)
  23. Another Big Stock-Market Rotation Is Under Way, and Tech Is on Top Again (Wall Street Journal)
  24. How Dua Lipa Shut Down the Trolls and Conquered International Pop (VanityFair)
  25. Elon Musk Slams Bitcoin’s Underlying Technology (Futurism)
  26. Exposure of Wall Street’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’ Could Shift ETF Assets Back to Mutual Funds (Institutional Investor)
  27. The AirBNBs (paulgraham)
  28. S11 E2 Tony Robbins Points to the Keys to Fulfillment (DoubleLine)
  29. 2022 Lotus Emira revealed: Lotus’ last internal combustion sports car (CNET)
  30. Katz: Recent pullback in financials could be a great opportunity to step in and buy (YouTube)

Unusual Options Activity – Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TAK)

Data Source: barchart

Today some institution/fund purchased 1,111 contracts of Jan $16 strike calls (or the right to buy 111,100 shares of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TAK) at $16). The open interest was just 177 prior to this purchase. Continue reading “Unusual Options Activity – Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (TAK)”